Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Honey is sweet, sure. But bees are a sweaty job. Keeping a hive is labor of love, with an emphasis on labor. It’s been this way ...

In 1851, Reverend Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth invented a better beehive and changed beekeeping forever. The Langstroth Hive didn’t spring fully formed from one man’s imagination, but was built on a ...

James Muriuki, the Assistant Director in charge of Livestock Production at the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries (MoALF), loves talking about bees. The man has a passion for beekeeping.

It is the third meeting of the Yale Bee Space at the Center for Engineering, Innovation and Design (CEID), and hive coordinator Fred Rincon ’16 is at the whiteboard with a marker, drawing a beehive.

There are between 115,000 and 125,000 beekeepers in the U.S. during any given year. According to the National Honey Board, most of these keep less than 25 hives as a hobby. Commercial beekeepers ...